History of the Americas

From the early days of radio through the rise of television after World War II to the present, music has been used more and more to sell goods and ...

A bold and original argument that upends the myth of the Fifties as a decade of conformity to celebrate the solitary, brave, and stubborn individua...

Discover the stories passed down over time from the people of the Ozark region. Oral history is shared through the years to provide a perspective o...

In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining ration...

Huzza for the new World and farewell to the Old One, John Adams wrote in late 1787, wrapping up a decades worth of diplomatic service in Europe. Vo...

Blueprint for Disaster traces public housing's history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. Daley's Plan for Transfo...

Last Subway is the fascinating and dramatic story behind New York City's struggle to build a new subway line under Second Avenue and improve transi...

The definitive, fully illustrated state-by-state atlas of the shifting alignments, historic sites, and current points of interest along the United ...

The vehicles and other firefighting equipment of the Milwaukee Fire Department, like the department itself, are unique among the fire service. I...

In the Old Northwest from 1830 to 1870, a bold set of activists battled slavery and racial prejudice. This book is about their expansive efforts to...

Model Airplanes are Decadent and Depraved tells the story of the American glue-sniffing epidemic of the 1960s, from the first reports of use to the...

The History of Starved Rock provides a wonderful overview of the famous site in Utica, Illinois, from when European explorers first viewed the bluf...

Christian Bagge, an Iraq War veteran, lost both his legs in a roadside bomb attack on his Humvee in 2006. Months after the accident, outfitted with...

In Trying Biology, Adam R. Shapiro convincingly dispels many conventional assumptions about the 1925 Scopes monkey trial. Most view it as an event ...

Fathers in the 1950s tend to be portrayed as wise and genial pipe-smokers or distant, emotionless patriarchs. These common but limited stereotypes ...

Winner of the Richard B. Harwell Award, Tennessee History Book Award and the Doughlas Southall Freeman AwardA critical moment in the Civil War, the...

Classic Photographs from the Farm Security Administration Featuring photographs by such renowned photographers as Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein...

How do we balance individual and collective responsibility for illness? This question, which continues to resonate today, was especially pressing i...

Fathers in the 1950s tend to be portrayed as wise and genial pipe-smokers or distant, emotionless patriarchs. These common but limited stereotypes ...

In the late 1800s, Arctic Fever swept across the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to the Arctic to find a sea route to Asia an...

Are claims of Massachusetts's special and instructive place in American history and politics justified? Alternately described as a city upon a hill...

Following the 1960s, that decade's focus on consciousness-raising transformed into an array of intellectual projects far afield of movement politic...

With the Soviet Unions launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into ...

A valuable resource for students, teachers, and citizens looking to better understand US Constitutional history With Liberty and Justice for All...

Christopher Gist is a great American hero who has often gone unnoticed. Recognized for giving colonists the first detailed description of the Oh...